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DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.
Verboticisms
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Pennykilla
Created by: shrimp
Pronunciation: penni-killa
Sentence: a times of a romantic evening, the dirty looks of the girl will pennykilla my heart
Etymology: first thing I thought of when I read the description :-)
Idiotsyncrasy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: id eeeot sin kras ee
Sentence: she was amazed at how quickly his idiosyncrasies became idiotsyncrasies in the morning light,
Etymology: idiot + syncrasy
Irritrait
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ear-ee-trayt
Sentence: his babytalk was the irritrait that drove a wedge between them
Etymology: irritate, trait
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COMMENTS:
This perfectly describes the actions of the guy who sits in front of me who argues to an unseen somethingorother all day; a very annoying irritrait. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 18:56:00
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Sexappall
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: seks-uh-pall
Sentence: Over time, Sue realized that Bob had developed sexappall; not only did he pass gas in public, he loudly rated his emissions on a scale of 1 to 10.
Etymology: sex appeal, appall
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COMMENTS:
maybe that explains the wilted flowers - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 13:22:00
Very likely. Who would want a fartner with such a terrible characteristink? - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 14:43:00
You'd better be careful purple - this infiltration of verbospeak may require a verbotomy lobotomy - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 15:40:00
Lingosuction? OHNOOOOOOOOOO!!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 17:27:00
this is getting wordiculous...absword even - rikboyee, 2007-02-15: 19:31:00
(Methinks rikboyee needs lingosuction more than I.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 19:42:00
very funny! - wordmeister, 2007-02-15: 21:11:00
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Jiltrait
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: jill-trate (rhymes with filtrate)
Sentence: Hogan wondered why his relationships never lasted; finally a friend told him about all of his bad jiltraits.
Etymology: jilt + trait
Divugnance
Created by: Mobelia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His once endearing habit of winking at her was quickly becoming a divugnance.
Etymology: from diversion as in quirk, abboration or abnomality and repugnance as in distaste, repulsion and resentment.
Quirkedout
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: qwerked-out
Sentence: Julie was quirkedout by Dan's annoying habbit of clicking his teeth.
Etymology: quirk + past tense + out
Tickleme
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /'tik-&l-"mE/
Sentence: While the toddler quickly learned that affecting a lisp was a good way to get adults to do what she wanted, it wasn't until long after it started having the opposite effect that she realized it for the tickleme it was.
Etymology: As in the "Tickle-me Elmo" doll. Some (not all) may have found it once cute, but no talking toy with less than a 50-sentence vocabulary can help but become annoying after awhile.
Ewsik
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: EEeeeeeeewwwwww SICK!
Sentence: Julie's ewsik has gotten to the point that every time she clears her throat I wanna grab her by the hair and smash her face in. "I think it's cute." You would. She's all yours.
Etymology: My xgf used to say eww sick all the time.
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COMMENTS:
ew rock! - Nosila, 2009-09-10: 01:50:00
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Cattribute
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kat trib yewt
Sentence: When Jimmy Rattner met Catrina, he thought her devotion to cats was cute. One of her main cattributes was wearing jewellery, clothing, hair accessories, purses and shoes with cat designs on them. After never seeing her in anything but cat couture, he started to grow tired of it all. She finally invited him in for a coffee & a KitKat, only for him to discover her other cattribute was to own 20 cats in a one-bedroom apartment. So used his main rattribute and ran out on her without a word, never to call again. Rats! she thought...Cat must have got his tongue.
Etymology: Cat (feline mammal) & Attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
Comments:
wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...
ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.